Further Reading

To deepen your understanding of concepts, ideas, and especially of histories studied each week, please delve deeper into the sources listed in the syllabus and consult the following sources. The bibliography is selective rather than comprehensive, and contains only English-language texts. Much of the bibliography is copied from the UCSD Sources on Qing History. If you come across a text that you feel ought to be included in this bibliography, please let me know.

Urban Space and Architectural Theory

* Rowe, William T. Hankow : Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.
* Rowe, William T. Hankow : Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
* Rozman, Gilbert. Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974.
* Skinner, G. William, ed. The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1977.

Chinese architecture and material culture

See 2004 bibliography on topic, Princeton University (click here for PDF)

Giuseppe Castiglione (Chinese name: Lang Shining)
* pending

Manchu rule and ethnicity

* Crossley, Pamela Kyle. Orphan Warriors : Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
* Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The Manchus. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
* Crossley, Pamela Kyle. A Translucent Mirror : History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
* Dennerline, Jerry. The Chia-Ting Loyalists : Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
* Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way : The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.
*Kahn, Harold. Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes: Image and Reality in the Ch'ien-lung Reign. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
* Leong, Sow-Theng, Tim Wright and G. William Skinner, ed. Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
* Lipman, Jonathan Neaman. Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
* Michael, Franz H. The Origin of Manchu Rule in China; Frontier and Bureaucracy as Interacting Forces in the Chinese Empire. New York: Octagon Books, 1965.
* Millward, James A. Beyond the Pass : Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.
* Oxnam, Robert B. Ruling from Horseback: Manchu Politics in the Oboi Regency, 1661-1669. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
* Spence, Jonathan D. and John E. Wills, ed. From Ming to Ch'ing : Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
* Spence, Jonathan D. Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-Hsi Emperor : Bondservant and Master. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
* Wakeman, Frederic E. The Great Enterprise : The Manchu Reconstruction of the Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

The Forbidden City on Display

See biblliography of exhibition catalogs in Susan Naquin's article, "The Forbidden City Goes Abroad: Qing History and the Foreign Exhibitions of the Palace Museum, 1974-2004," T'oung Pao vol XC nos. 4-5 (2004): 341-97 (JSTOR).

Women and Family

* Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender : Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
* Eastman, Lloyd E. Family, Fields, and Ancestors : Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
* Ko, Dorothy Teachers of the Inner Chambers : Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.
* Mann, Susan. Precious Records : Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
* Sommer, Matthew H. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
* Spence, Jonathan D. The Death of Woman Wang. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
* Stockard, Janice E. Daughters of the Canton Delta : Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Religions in Late Imperial China

*Berger, Patricia. Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. N8193.C6B47 2003
* Chesneaux, Jean, ed. Secret Societies in China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1971.
* Jordan, David K. Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors; the Folk Religion of a Taiwanese Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
* Martin, Emily and Arthur P. Wolf, ed. Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974.
* Naquin, Susan and Chun-fang Yu, ed. Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
* Nathan, Andrew J., Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Judith A. Berling, and David G. Johnson, ed. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
* Overmyer, Daniel L. Folk Buddhist Religion : Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
* Shih, Yu-chung. The Taiping Ideology; Its Sources, Interpretations, and Influences. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.
* Watson, James L. and Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, ed. Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
* Yang, C. K. Religion in Chinese Society; a Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou /Yangzhou Urban History

*Chang, Michael. A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College, 2007.
*Finnanne, Antonia.
* Hay, Jonathan.
* Hsu, Ginger Cheng-chi. A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
* Meyer-Fong, Tobie.

19th-century China: State and Society

* Benedict, Carol. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
* Bernhardt, Katherine. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance : The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.
* Grove, Linda and Christian Daniels, ed. State and Society in China : Japanese Perspectives on Ming-Qing Social and Economic History. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984.
* Ho, Ping-ti. Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
* Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. Rural China; Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960.
* Huang, Philip C. Civil Justice in China : Representation and Practice in the Qing. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
* Kuhn, Philip A. Soulstealers : The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
* Mann, Susan. Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.
* Min, Tu-gi, Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook, ed. National Polity and Local Power : The Transformation of Late Imperial China. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1989.
* Perdue, Peter C. Exhausting the Earth : State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1987.
* Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Making of a Hinterland : State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
* Sommer, Matthew H. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Imperial-era Elites

* Beattie, Hilary J. Land and Lineage in China : A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
* Chang, Chung-li. The Chinese Gentry; Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955.
* Chang, Chung-li. The Income of the Chinese Gentry. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962.
* Esherick, Joseph and Mary B. Rankin, ed. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
* Ho, Ping-ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China; Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.
* Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
* Meskill, Johanna Margarete Menzel. A Chinese Pioneer Family : The Lins of Wu-Feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.
* Polachek, James M. The Inner Opium War. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, 1992.
* Rankin, Mary B. Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China : Zhejiang Province, 1865-1911. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.

Scholarship and Culture

* Chow, Kai-wing. The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China : Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.
* Elman, Benjamin A. From Philosophy to Philology : Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1984.
* Elman, Benjamin A. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship : The Ch'Ang-Chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
* Keenan, Barry C. Imperial China's Last Classical Academies : Social Change in the Lower Yangzi, 1864-1911. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California Berkeley, 1994.
* Wilson, Thomas A. Genealogy of the Way : The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Opium Wars

* Chang, Hsin-pao. Commissioner Lin and the Opium War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.
* Fay, Peter Ward. The Opium War, 1840-1842 : Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
* Polachek, James M. The Inner Opium War. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, 1992.
* Wakeman, Frederic E. Strangers at the Gate; Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
* Waley, Arthur. The Opium War through Chinese Eyes. London: Allen & Unwin, 1958.
* Wong, J. Y. Deadly Dreams : Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Foreign Relations, Imperialism, and Trade

* Benedict, Carol. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
* Eastman, Lloyd E. Throne and Mandarins: China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy, 1880-1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
* Fairbank, John King. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast; the Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.
* Frodsham, J. D., Sung-t ao Kuo, Hsi-hung Liu and Te-i Chang. The First Chinese Embassy to the West; the Journals of Kuo-Sung-T'ao, Liu Hsi-Hung and Chang Te-Yi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
* Gardella, Robert Paul. Harvesting Mountains : Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
* Li, Lillian M. China's Silk Trade : Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1981.
* Hao, Yen-p'ing. The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China: Bridge between East and West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
* Hsu, Immanuel Chung-yueh. China's Entrance into the Family of Nations: The Diplomatic Phase, 1858-1880. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.
* Hunt, Michael H. The Making of a Special Relationship : The United States and China to 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
* Paine, S. C. M. Imperial Rivals : China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
* Schrecker, John E. Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism; Germany in Shantung. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
* Spence, Jonathan D. To Change China; Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960. Boston: Little Brown, 1969.
* Teng, Ssu-yu and John King Fairbank. China's Response to the West; a Documentary Survey, 1839-1923. New York: Atheneum, 1954.

Missionaries

* Bays, Daniel H., ed. Christianity in China : From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
* Cohen, Paul A. China and Christianity; the Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
* Fairbank, John King, ed. The Missionary Enterprise in China and America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
* Hunter, Jane. The Gospel of Gentility : American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
* Spence, Jonathan D. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1985.

Peasant Rebellion and Collective Violence

* Chesneaux, Jean and Lucien Bianco. Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1972.
* Cohen, Paul A. History in Three Keys : The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
* Esherick, Joseph. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
* Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
* Michael, Franz H. The Taiping Rebellion; History and Documents. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966.
* Naquin, Susan. Millenarian Rebellion in China : The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
* Naquin, Susan. Shantung Rebellion : The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
* Perry, Elizabeth J. Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1980.
* Spence, Jonathan D. God's Chinese Son : The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
* Tan, Chester C. The Boxer Catastrophe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.
* Wagner, Rudolf G. Reenacting the Heavenly Vision : The Role of Religion in the Taiping Rebellion. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California Berkeley, 1982.
* Wakeman, Frederic E. and Carolyn Grant, ed. Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
* Weller, Robert P. Resistance, Chaos, and Control in China : Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts, and Tiananmen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.

Facing the West: The State Response

* Chu, Samuel C. and Kwang-Ching Liu, ed. Li Hung-Chang and China's Early Modernization. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994.
* Kwong, Luke S. K. A Mosaic of the Hundred Days : Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of 1898. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1984.
* MacKinnon, Stephen R. Power and Politics in Late Imperial China : Yuan Shi-Kai in Beijing and Tianjin, 1901-1908. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
* Reynolds, Douglas Robertson. China, 1898-1912 : The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1993.
* Wright, Mary C. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'Ung-Chih Restoration, 1862-1874. New York: Atheneum, 1966.

Facing the West: The Intellectual Response

* Chang, Hao. Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China, 1890-1907. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
* Chang, Hao. Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis : Search for Order and Meaning (1890-1911). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
* Howland, Douglas. Borders of Chinese Civilization : Geography and History at Empire's End. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
* Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. A Modern China and a New World : K'Ang Yu-Wei, Reformer and Utopian, 1858-1927. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975.
* Levenson, Joseph Richmond. Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
* Levenson, Joseph Richmond. Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A Trilogy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
* Pusey, James Reeve. China and Charles Darwin. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1983.
* Schwartz, Benjamin I. In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
* Wong, Young-tsu. Search for Modern Nationalism : Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China, 1869-1936. Hong Kong ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
* Zarrow, Peter G. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
* Kwok, Daniel W. Y. Scientism in Chinese Thought, 1900-1950. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1971.
* Reardon-Anderson, James. The Study of Change : Chemistry in China, 1840-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

1911 Revolution

* Esherick, Joseph. Reform and Revolution in China : The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
* Eto, Shinkichi and Harold Z. Schiffrin, ed. China's Republican Revolution. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994.
* Friedman, Edward. Backward toward Revolution; the Chinese Revolutionary Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
* Liew, K. S. Struggle for Democracy; Sung Chiao-Jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
* Price, Don C. Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896-1911. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
* Rankin, Mary B. Early Chinese Revolutionaries; Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
* Rhoads, Edward J. M. China's Republican Revolution : The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
* Schiffrin, Harold Z. Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
* Wright, Mary, ed. China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900-1913. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.


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